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MJ carefully sneaked down the hall, making sure she wasn't spotted by anyone. It didn't take too long to get back to the section in white drapes. As she got closer, the shard in her hand glowed a little brighter. She took a quick look around, seeing no one around, and quickly entered.

Whatever she was expecting, it wasn't this: men lying on makeshift beds on the floor, clearly sick. MJ nearly gasped at the sight. Their bodies were covered with a almost-gooey substance almost like moss that gave a strange glow, the same as the shard she carried, MJ realized. There were some variance, but not much. Some only had small sections infected, others had almost their entire bodies covered.

It was clear MJ made a mistake coming here, but when she turned to leave, the shard began pulsing in her hand. She swear she could feel it pull her towards something.

Reluctantly, MJ let the shard guide her towards a room, separate from the other infected. She saw a female servant tending to a young man, and quickly hiding, she waited until the servant left to fetch something.

As MJ approached, she looked at the young man on the bed before her. He clearly couldn't be any older than 18, with short curly hair and a slightly handsome face. He breathed shallow, as the black goo covering his torso glowed.

MJ held the shard up, looking back and forth between it and the glowing moss. These two were connected, she knew somehow. However, as she was pondering this, the light coming from the shard suddenly intensified.

As she watched, the shard seemed to be pulling the light from the moss, and absorbing it. Suddenly, images flashed in her mind: hideous, humanoid monsters covered in black goo, approaching a giant crystal. Something about them seemed familiar. However, the images quickly faded, and MJ was back in the sick bay. It was over as soon as it started, the shard returned to normal, and the goo covering his torso suddenly evaporating. The young man began to breathe more easily now that whatever it was that infected him was gone.

MJ honestly had no clue what just happened, and she didn't get the chance to think about it before she heard the sound of someone approaching. She quickly sneaked back out the hallway, and back to her guest room.

Unknown to her, the same servant who had left before stepped out, having seen the whole thing. She checked on the young man before leaving the room.

Somehow, MJ managed to sneak back to the guest quarters, without anyone seeing her. However, just as she was approaching her room, she bumped into Rera, coming out of the room.

“There you are. Thank X'Hal,” Rera said, with relief, ”I came back with the food and clothing you requested, but you were gone. Where were you?“

”Sorry about that,“ MJ quickly said, ”I was, uh, looking for the bathroom?“ Real original, she thought to herself.

Thankfull, Rera bought it. “Oh, well if you needed to take a bath, you should have let me know, instead of going off on your own,” she said.

“Yeah, of course,“ MJ replied, deciding not to correct her.

Rera proceeded to gently push her back into the guest room, saying ”Now, we should make sure the clothing I brought actually fits you.“

”Gotcha,“ MJ said, going with the flow.